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Yes both are 2000. I’m not sure I understand the vba solution. I’m not trying to change a ‘Fill’ color just the “native” active cell color.

In PowerPoint the full “Slide view” is the printable page (with margins). You probably knew that. So are you saying that if you have text typed to that edge it doesn’t print to the edge? -or doesn’t print at all?

How about objects? Is it an issue with your printers printable area being different from what PP thinks it can print?

Make several short lines both vertically and horizontally on your borders. Start at what you view as the edge and work in a half inch or so. How many of those lines print? Does it appear that lines cut-off at the same point that the text does?

I know this is more questions than answers, but this may help you troubleshoot.

MJ, thanks, had already thought of those two. I wanted something to run “blind” in the background not needing any human intervention. Thanks….

Another point is when you hit the save button, you are doing an update to a current file not creating a new one. This is usually “tag-on” information on what was added/deleted, etc.

Test this by taking a current PPpresentation you already have and know the size of. Let’s say it’s 2748K (why? because that’s the size of a presentation I have to work with!). Save it as “test saves”. The “NEW” file is only 2739k. Why? we got rid of all the “adds/deletes, etc” infomation.

Next delete all of your slides and hit the save button. My file dropped to 128k. –128K for a blank (empty)presentation! This is really curious.

On previous (97 I think) versions I’ve done this and had the file GROW. -Go figure

Dumb question. When you import a piece of clip art and ungroup it, you get a message about converting it to a MSOffice object. Could it be as simple as ungrouping and regrouping? At that point it’s a collection of objects on the screen.

I too never heard of a ‘CIL’ file. I went to: http://extsearch.com/ and did a search and of 1800+ extensions ‘CIL’ doesn’t list.

Couldn’t you put what’s in the pdf (image) on the “last” slide?

FIrst: I know nothing of raster images.

Is your “Picture” tool bar turned on? (View->Toolbars->Picture) These give you quite an array of tools for formatting.

Think backwards? Why not have the user click, change to the next screen (which was duplicated) with no transition and THEN do the animation? Have the animation disappear and there you are. Same look? If I missed let me know.

How ’bout a real ugly work around?

First, I know nothing about creating PDF documents. However since this is only 10 slides; In PP you can run a slide show and do a screen print [Print Screen Key] while the presentation and paste that image into whatever graphics program you have including good ol’ paint. Can you make PDF documents from these images?

RE: copy/paste; You’re right.

Work around: Copy from the web screen, open word pad, paste. Copy text from Word pad and paste into VBA screen.

This same issue happens with ’97’s custom sound track. Even though both versions are installed, 2000 seems to take over with all user interface, etc.I’m not sure if installing to different partitions will help or not.

Dat did it. Thanks for your help!!!

Thanks for the reply! I’ve attached the file for ease of discussion.

As you can see the sheet is already subtotaled. When I use the “Autofilter” I can choose the cells that contain the word “Total” (or most any choice that would get me a total (sub-total) record), the totals in the other colums disappear. I need the entire subtotal record!

I will be no help here from the vba side, but I wanted to clarify.

You need to add one (the same in every case) statement to the bottom of the master of all your presentations. something like: “copyright 2000, speak2you, inc. all rights reserved, etc”?